Join us in toasting and roasting the Titanic nincompoops, massive
losers, and gigantic jerks who make Boston such a very special town.

Oh, That Sinking Feeling
Selecting our 1998 Golden Turkey presented a difficult conundrum: We
had two candidates who exemplified the ideal mix of qualities required
to wear the official Boston Magazine Golden Turkey sash at parades,
monster truck pulls, and state funerals. They had both lied, denied,
and were ultimately fried for their 1998 infractions.

[snip]
He cracked when they started screening Days of Thunder and Urban
Cowboy on his front lawn.

Multimillionaire and fervent anti-Church of Scientology activist
Robert Minton of Boston fired two 12-gauge-shotgun blasts in the air
when a church private eye and four Scientologist protesters refused to
leave the grounds of his Sandown, New Hampshire, home, according to
the Boston Herald. No criminal charges were filed.